The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
ISAAC '88 Proceedings of the International Symposium ISSAC'88 on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
The Essence of Multilevel Metamodeling
«UML» '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools
Domain-Specific Modeling
A Systematic Approach to Domain-Specific Language Design Using UML
ISORC '07 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Object and Component-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing
Constructing and navigating non-invasive model decorations
ICMT'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Theory and practice of model transformations
Consistent modeling using multiple UML profiles
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems: Part I
Domain-specific textual meta-modelling languages for model driven engineering
ECMFA'12 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
An introduction to model versioning
SFM'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems: formal methods for model-driven engineering
Applying MDE to the (semi-)automatic development of model transformations
Information and Software Technology
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
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Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs) are getting more and more attention as a key element of Model Driven Engineering. As any other software artefact, DSMLs should continuously evolve to adapt to the changing needs of the domain they represent. Unfortunately, right now evolution of DSMLs is a costly process that requires changing its metamodel and re-creating the complete modeling environment. In this paper we advocate for the use of EMF Profiles, an adaptation of the UML profile concept to DSMLs. Profiles have been a key enabler for the success of UML by providing a lightweight language-inherent extension mechanism which is expressive enough to cover an important subset of adaptation scenarios. We believe a similar concept for DSMLs would provide an easier extension mechanism which has been so far neglected by current metamodeling tools. Apart from direct metamodel profiles, we also propose reusable profile definition mechanisms whereby profiles are defined independently of any DSML and, later on, coupled with all DSMLs that can benefit from these profiles. Our approach has been implemented in a prototype integrated in the EMF environment.